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Florence of Northumbria
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Historian. PhD on queenship in early medieval England. Disabled. Non-binary. Antiracist. Writes Ælfgif-who?, bios of medieval women @ http://florencehrs.substack.com 

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    Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18

    Sorry to go on about it but that straight girl calling her boyfriend ‘partner’ take is annoying me again. You can make up a hypothetical straight girl to get mad at, but in reality you can’t know what someone’s sexuality or relationship is by looking at them.

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      2. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18

        And, by the way, you can’t always know someone’s sexuality or gender even by knowing them closely for a long time. ‘Anyone might be a secret queer’ may sound like a stretch but not really if you think that almost every queer person was once secretly queer.

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      3. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18

        As someone whose relationship is probably always read as ‘straight’ by strangers, an assumption that I find deeply hurtful, I don’t want to have to explain why I use gender-neutral language to people who could be hostile. That stuff puts people and their partners at risk.

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      4. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18

        I get the ‘straight people normalising queer language isn’t queer’ take but queer people having to out themselves and their partners constantly or face gatekeeping is not safe or good. Sorry if being closeted/not being visibly queer isn’t ‘queer enough’ I guess but 🤷🏻‍♂️

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      5. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18

        A scenario: a straight teen girl is in relationship with someone who comes out to her as a trans girl but she isn’t ready to be visibly trans. Both parties risk being rejected by their parents. The trans girl asks to be ‘partner’ instead of ‘boyfriend’ bc of dysphoria.

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      6. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18

        Amid the stress and dysphoria of hiding her gender, now both parties are asked by their friends, even their queer friends, ‘why do you say partner when you’re straight?’ and some say ‘you shouldn’t do that if you’re straight it’s homophobic’. Do you see why gatekeeping is bad?

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      7. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18

        ‘Normalising queerness isn’t queer.’ Okay. Is policing queerness queer? I just don’t think it is

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      2. Gigi Griffis (she/her) pre-order BAD WITCH BURNING‏ @gigigriffis Feb 18
        Replying to @FlorenceHRS

        This - all of this. It feels like yet another way of erasing or outing non-binary folks, bi folks, and trans folks. Not to mention that it forces women in long-term, unmarried straight relationships to use infantilizing terms like boyfriend for someone who is much more.

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      3. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18
        Replying to @gigigriffis

        All of this

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      2. Ó Seacladh‏ @scarletdenizen Feb 18
        Replying to @FlorenceHRS

        What’s fundamentally bad about cis hetero couples calling each other partners?

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      3. Florence of Northumbria‏ @FlorenceHRS Feb 18
        Replying to @scarletdenizen

        Honestly I can’t come up with anything

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